2 Kings 21:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:20 : 20 His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
  • 2 Kgs 14:19 : 19 Now they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
  • 2 Chr 33:24-25 : 24 And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house. 25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
  • 1 Kgs 15:27 : 27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
  • 1 Kgs 16:9 : 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him while he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.
  • 2 Kgs 15:25 : 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
  • 2 Kgs 15:30 : 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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  • 2 Chr 33:20-25
    6 verses
    93%

    20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

    21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

    22 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images Manasseh his father had made and served them.

    23 And he did not humble himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but Amon trespassed more and more.

    24 And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

    25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 21:24-26
    3 verses
    86%

    24 And the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

    25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 21:18-22
    5 verses
    75%

    18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

    19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

    20 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

    21 And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.

    22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20 His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

    21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:3
    72%

    3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 24:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 And when they departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

    26 And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

    27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, indeed, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.

  • 2 Chr 25:27
    72%

    27 Now after the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent to Lachish after him, and killed him there.

  • 1 Chr 3:14
    70%

    14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.

  • 2 Kgs 23:30
    69%

    30 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    69%

    15 So they laid hands on her; and when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

  • 2 Kgs 14:19
    69%

    19 Now they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

  • 2 Chr 24:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

    22 So Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

    23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16 And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

    17 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 13:28-29
    2 verses
    68%

    28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, do not fear: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.

    29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got on his mule and fled.

  • 2 Chr 22:8
    67%

    8 And it happened that when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab and found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers who ministered to Ahaziah, he killed them.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    67%

    20 And he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    67%

    13 but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into idolatry as the house of Ahab did, and have also killed your brothers, who were better than you,

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    66%

    16 They seized her, and she went by the way of the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    66%

    25 And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him and he died.

  • 1 Kgs 16:10
    66%

    10 Zimri went in and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 11:20
    66%

    20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had killed Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 35:24
    66%

    24 His servants, therefore, took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died and was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

  • 2 Chr 21:4
    66%

    4 When Jehoram had ascended to his father's kingdom, he strengthened himself and killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    65%

    4 Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, leading to his destruction.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    65%

    17 They invaded Judah, breached it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house, along with his sons and his wives, so there was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

  • 2 Chr 22:10
    65%

    10 But when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal lineage of the house of Judah.

  • Matt 22:6
    65%

    6 And the rest seized his servants, mistreated them spitefully, and killed them.

  • 1 Chr 19:1
    65%

    1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    65%

    1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, reigned.

  • Jer 26:23
    65%

    23 And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the tombs of the common people.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    65%

    32 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.